M.O.M.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Dry Bones

It’s a beautiful fall day.
The windows and doors are open and the twins are outside playing. It’s been like this for a week. I’ve needed this, sunshine without the
sweltering heat of a Texas summer. Fresh
air with a hint of cooler weather to come; it’s still not cold enough to keep
the mosquitoes and flies away, so we’re not to my weather nirvana, but we’re
close. And close is good.

Close means soon the garden will be tilled and the dirt
allowed to rest till spring. It means
the yard won’t need mowing every week.
The weeds won’t need pulling. The
outside work will be set aside for another season, and I can rest from that
work. That’s not to say more won’t
start. The holidays are close at hand so
projects inside need to be started and completed in the next few months. List made and items checked off. But it’s different from what I’ve been doing
and that makes it exciting.

It’s in the everyday activities that I find
rest. And though resting while I work
doesn’t seem possible, for me and many others it is. Doing the same thing every day makes a good
life seem dull. Change, even subtle, can
help transform a mindset that has grown bored with life. It still requires the person to see the
beauty in the everyday, but it is possible.

Ecclesiastes 3: 1 There is a time for
everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens

Recently the husband made a decision that
will affect the whole family. It didn’t
come to him easily...